Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Real-time tracking reveals catalytic roles for the two DNA binding sites of Rad51

  • Kentaro Ito,
  • Yasuto Murayama,
  • Yumiko Kurokawa,
  • Shuji Kanamaru,
  • Yuichi Kokabu,
  • Takahisa Maki,
  • Tsutomu Mikawa,
  • Bilge Argunhan,
  • Hideo Tsubouchi,
  • Mitsunori Ikeguchi,
  • Masayuki Takahashi,
  • Hiroshi Iwasaki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16750-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Rad51 drives DNA strand exchange, the central reaction in recombinational DNA repair. Two sites of Rad51 are responsible for DNA binding, but the function of these sites has proven elusive. Here, the authors employ real-time assays to reveal catalytic roles for the two DNA binding sites of Rad51.